Facilities and Workplace Manager
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Join Ofwat’s Facilities and Workplace Management Team as a Facilities and Workplace Manager
This is an FTC appointment for 18 months (loans and secondments of up to 2 years will be considered).
*Office Location: Birmingham (B5 4UA) with hybrid working* For this role, office attendance will be four days per week with one day per week at home.
About Us
We are Ofwat, the Water Services Regulation Authority, a non-ministerial government department responsible for regulating the water sector in England and Wales. Following the Independent Water Commission’s final report, the UK government has set out a bold new direction - one that brings together expertise from across the sector to deliver better outcomes for customers and the environment.
We are working in collaboration with the government and other regulators to help establish a new body for England, combining our strengths with those of the Drinking Water Inspectorate, the Environment Agency, and Natural England. We’re also continuing to engage with the Welsh Government to support future decisions for Wales.
While these changes take shape, our mission remains the same: to hold water companies to account, drive performance, and ensure the sector delivers real value for customers, communities, and the environment. If you’re passionate about making a difference, this is a unique moment to join us and help shape the future of water, and together we can continue to make a positive impact.
The Role
This role has an important and valuable contribution to enable us to deliver on our goals and regulatory commitments.
As Facilities and Workplace Manager, you'll play a critical role in supporting our operations ensuring a productive, safe, comfortable, and sustainable work environment for our colleagues. Ensuring our Offices run effectively, ensuring a positive environment for our colleagues continue to enjoy a great place to work.
You'll manage all aspects of facilities operations, workplace management, and health & safety across all company locations (Birmingham, London and Cardiff). The role ensures a safe, compliant, efficient, and engaging workplace office environment that supports productivity, employee wellbeing, and operational success.
This role has line management responsibility for a small team who support in workplace management.
About You
Below are some of the key essential experience, skills & knowledge required for this post:
- Lead Criterion: Demonstrable experience in, facilities and workplace management in a multi-site or complex office environment.
- Lead Criterion: Proven experience in developing, implementing, and managing health and safety policies in an office workplace environment.
- NEBOSH General Certificate or equivalent in Occupational Health & Safety.
- Project management experience in planning and delivering workplace and facilities projects (e.g. office fit-outs, relocations).
- Experience managing budgets, contracts, and service providers.
- Experience in managing day-to-day operations of building facilities (HVAC, cleaning, security, maintenance, etc.).
- Experience in procuring services and managing supplier performance against KPIs and SLAs.
Why You Should Join Us
- People Centric
Follow the link to apply for full details about the role. Please ensure you have submitted your application in full before the below deadline.
Closing date: 23.55 on 01 March 2026